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Following an outbreak of the deadly avian influenza, Tripura Saturday sounded a bird flu alert and intensified surveillance. Two central government teams comprising scientists and doctors arrived in Tripura Saturday to assist the state authorities. They are closely monitoring the situation, an official said. “We have deployed 16 Rapid Response Teams (RRT) in the affected [...] Continue reading Tripura on bird flu alert; central teams arrive
Nepal’s embattled government put security forces on alert Thursday and asked the opposition Maoist party to stop giving military training to its cadre nationwide ahead of a looming constitutional crisis.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who has been fighting an insistent demand by the former guerrillas for his resignation to avert a crisis next month, called [...] Continue reading Security alert as Nepal asks Maoists to stop military training
Security forces intensified combing operations along the Orissa-Chhattisgarh border Wednesday, a day after the massacre of 76 paramilitary troopers by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, an official said.
“The area where Maoists launched their attack in Chhattisgarh Tuesday is located about 30-40 km from the border of Orissa’s Malkangiri district,” Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeeb [...] Continue reading High alert along Orissa-Chhattisgarh border
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered security agencies to be on high alert after a tip-off by Indian and other foreign intelligence agencies on a possible threat to her life and to sensitive installations in the country.
She told her colleagues at the cabinet meeting Monday evening that besides a possible attack on her, government [...] Continue reading Be alert, says Hasina after tip-off on threat to her life